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the shutdown of the Homeland Security Department, approving a $70 billion funding blueprint
after remaining in session overnight.
“The resolution would fund the ice and border patrol agencies for the next three years.”
Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process to get around democratic demands for guardrails on immigration enforcement operations. The motion now goes to the House. The Senate is once again blocked a democratic led measure to limit President Trump's war powers in Iran, and Piers-Claude Griselys reports that Democrats say they will force
to vote again until Trump officials publicly testify on the conflict. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin says it's long past time for Congress to put a check on President Trump's led war, despite the ceasefire Baldwin argues fallout from the conflict continues to build. The President said that the war would be over in a matter of days.
"We are coming up on the two month mark with no real end in sight." Baldwin is one of several Democrats forcing the war powers votes to put Republicans on record. Only Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul defected to join Democrats who have argued for an end to the costly and unpopular conflict. And while most Republicans remain loyal to Trump, some have warned their position could
shift at the war's 60-day mark at the end of this month. Claudine Salis and Pierre-News, the capital. "Tentions are again increasing in the straight of our moves. Iran attacked at least three ships near the straight Wednesday and seize two of them. Jim Walsh is a security analyst at MIT.
He explains the significance behind the Iranian attacks." "Two reasons, one, it need only attack a ship here and a ship there to remind those who want to ship oil or other goods in the straight that they're at risk if they do so. They don't have to attack every ship.
They just have to attack a couple. One here and one there. And I would say the second reason is that it offers them a way to achieve a sort of tipped for tax response to the U.S. seizure of the two ships done by the U.S. ships engaged in the naval blockade."
The White House says a new deadline for the ceasefire President Trump has extended his not been said and what talks stalled. Iranian President Mosoud Pazeskiyans says the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports and breach of commitments are the main obstacles. While fires in the southeast and tentifying some of the biggest blazes burning along
Georgia's coast and around Jacksonville, Florida, they burned over 33 square miles in Georgia and destroyed more than 50 homes. Officials in Denmark say at least 16 people were injured when two trains collided this
morning north of Copenhagen for people reported in critical condition the collision prompted
a massive emergency response. This is in PR. El Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators Wednesday that if President Trump's nominee to lead the CDC as confirmed, she will make decisions on vaccines without political interference.
“Republican Senator Bill Cassidy is a doctor who cast a key vote to confirm Kennedy”
itself's secretary, he press Kennedy on Erica Schwartz's nomination during a budget hearing Wednesday. The CDC director has that power. Now, so she will have, if she wishes to, if she wishes to make a decision, independently of them, she shall be allowed to make that decision independently.
That's correct. Yes. The previous CDC director said Kennedy fired her because she disagreed with its vaccine policies. Other reporting surprisingly strong first quarter earnings, although CEO Elon Musk cautioned
investors that the company will be spending big in the months ahead, as MPR's Camila Dominozki reports Tesla continues to stake its future on new technology. EV sales helped drive the higher than expected profits, but that positive cash flow is dwarfed
by the $25 billion Tesla plans to spend this year on things like chips, software, and manufacturing
lines to build a humanoid robot called Optimus. On the sunny rooftop of the Tesla diner in Los Angeles, Optimus was not scooping popcorn as its famously done on social media that kind of disappointed Tesla investor Alan Jung, but he's still all in on Musk's vision for the future.
“I think Tesla will change the word of human beings.”
And it's that faith, more than any single quarter's earnings that his driven Tesla stock price. Camila Dominozki and PR news, Los Angeles. Every story from shortwave and pure science podcasts starts with a question. Like, why do we have nightmares?
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